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Mar 16, 6:06pm
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Sunday afternoon
This is why Poplar Ave is called just that. Perhaps a day or two too late to catch the almost snow white color of the trees, rather insignificant during the rest of the year, but beautiful while the blooming is lasting.
Actually you will find poplars blooming all over the city right now.
This is the best time to visit Memphis.
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Mar 16, 7:58am
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From my stomping grounds
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Mar 16, 7:58am
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Friday
My wife is at work, my son is home = No car left for me.
So I spent a few minutes trying out macro photography while waiting for a glue joint to settle in my shop.
Things oozing out from a board in the fence, maybe it's fungus.
This is my recent victim in the shop, an old clock, I believe it really is old. Sorry about the perspective.
It is badly beaten up, that's a pity, it might have been valuable otherwise. The inscription is in French, but I wouldn't venture to say that it was made in Europe.
The first task will be to re-glue it, then I'll try to refresh the surfaces a bit.
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Mar 13, 12:32pm
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Thursday
Just a block or two north of Poplar Ave is a very wealthy neighborhood. I swallowed my envy and spent a half hour driving around there.
While most of Memphis is flat, here are some hills that have been used to create some unique homes.
With much of the air gone out of the housing market, there are many, many houses like this one for sale, probably many dreams shattered, too. I don't believe this one was ever lived in.
Another house in the same cove as the above, for sale.
I am happy I don't have to fill a house like this with furniture. But it is a nice house, anyway.
This is one of very few neighborhoods that is not gated and surrounded by high, ugly fences.
And spring is here
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Mar 12, 3:22pm
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Wednesday
Halfway through the week and it's getting warmer and warmer.
On my way home from dropping my wife off at her job, I went in to Auto Zone to get some fix for my wheel barrow's flat tire. If it works as well on cars as it did on that wheel, I would warmly recommend to keep a can in every car. An instant fix.
I've been in the yard all day, digging up dead hibiscuses and filling in where the chipmunks have made flowerbeds collapse. Last year we ordered some "special soil" a few cubic yards, it turned out to be mostly clay, so this year I'll go and see for myself what they have to offer.
Moss grows next to an oak tree, it looks like a miniature forest almost when I go as near as my camera allows me to.
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Mar 11, 2:09pm
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Tuesday
A great day for yard work
With the returning warmth my interest for the backyard comes back, too. I took a close up of the rose bush, it is not wasting any time.
Many trees are also on the verge of turning green
I bagged the remaining leaves today, long overdue, and I noticed these tiny, but really beautiful flowers coming up from under the dry leaves. I have no idea what they are called.
Monotonous work like putting dry leaves in garbage bags sets my mind free to wander. Memories from a perhaps better forgotten past keep surfacing, long forgotten faces pop up from some dormant part of my head, some neurons firing at random almost, is that the final confirmation that I have indeed reached seniority?
Why do I need to recall a lost verbal battle at work in 1982? Or why I was arrogant towards a fellow coworker, while we were discussing a matter, where he probably was better equipped to handle it anyway.
I'd better ask my 19-year-old for an answer.
He knows everything right now and gives us free advice! His favorite remarks, that make my wife go ballistic, begins with: "You should"..etc.
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Mar 11, 12:43am
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Monday.
We had snow last Friday, this is from the yard today.
Spring is just around the corner
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Mar 8, 3:21pm
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Friday
We got snow today, only two weeks before spring.
It does lighten up a bit and it won't be lasting long, I like that about the South.
The birdhouse from last year, still waiting for its first inhabitants.
I put it up too late in the season.
I'll be watching it in some five weeks from now.
Our youngest made it home from Chattanooga just in time, the roads were ok all the way through Tennessee. I'm not sure they will stay that way, it's still snowing and it's getting colder.
A bit of snow and the boring and mundane becomes almost magical
I was a Baker today. The kids love fresh bread. A bit burnt? Nah..
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Mar 8, 9:59am
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Saturday
Catching the snow became a race against the sun today.
We went to Collierville, there was less snow there, but still enough to cover the ground. The sun was melting it away already at ten in the morning.
The pansies are trying to free themselves from the cover.
To my great joy a freight train came rumbling through.
The old railway station
The park entrance, basking in the sun, just like the photographer.
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